Past Cars

[SpokesT]

Wotcher all

just spent an enjoyable night going through a lot of past posts up to a year old or so, and saw one about averager ages of Lexus drivers.

It got me to thinking, I am now the proud owner of my first Lexus IS200 SE, aged 41.

Ten years back I was driving a 1990 Astra estate (2 kids under the age of 4 back then meant load space was vital). Ten years prior to that I was driving a 1982 Datsun Sunny.

What were you lot driving ten and twenty yrs back before moving up to what we all drive now?

ATBPOR

[P38Aaron]

10 years ago I had just passed my driving test and had an A reg 1.1 Ford Fiesta...oh great times!

[aztecbandit1]

i passed my test 19years ago and my first car was a 1972 k reg mini clubman and 10years lata i was driving an escort 1.6S which i owned for 10years funny enough

[bigal]

Well I'm only a youngster(ish), I only passed my test 9 years ago when I was 17, my first car was a Renault Clio 1.2 which met a sticky end in a field on its roof, then a Skoda Fabia 1.4 which I drove until I could afford my IS200.

[Unregistered_User]

10 years ago......?

It won't have been a push chair I was driving I hope (age 10) but possibly a Battery powered car I could sit in and "drive" :D

The first was a 1.6 Ford Focus though age 17 and I now have the IS age 20.

J

[DJ Wozza]

20 years = Ford Cortina MK4 1.6 GL Saloon 1978 S plate Biege (my first car in 1987)

10 years = Vauxhall Cavalier SRi150 Hatchback 1991 J plate Burgundy (my forth car),

[whiteman]

10 years ago I think I was driving a pug 205 GTi

20 years ago I was defo driving around in a vauxhall chevette which I had to fill the radiator up by using one of the hub caps and puddles at the roadside as the head decided to go on my way home

[Ian M]

Currently driving an IS300 SportCross.

10 years ago, I’d just bought a Honda Accord.

20 years ago, I was driving a Rover 216 Vitesse

30 years ago, I was riding a pushbike!!

[Monster-Mat]

10 years ago.....

Porsche 993

BMW Hartge 325 m-tec (2.7l)

1966 Vw beetle (US Export model)

Rover 200 (1.8 RoverMotorSport racing engine) (very heavily modified)

20 years ago.....

had bought a 1971 vw beetle, just waiting to join the army to do my lessons

[mudzs]

first car was a capri mk1 GT some 23 years ago

20 years ago astra GTE

10 years ago volvo 850 T5R

5 years ago lexus of course

[Anees]

er... Ten years ago I would have been 15 with nothing but my BMX biike

[mudzs]

I am starting to feel very old reading this .

[Tuff]

how far do you want go back let me see first car

1. hillman imp £30

2. ford cortina mk3 1600 GT,

3. vauxhall chervette,

4. Fiat Mirafiori 2000 TC.

5. ford escort MK3 in yellow.

6. fiesta XR2. VW Golf (everything in white)

7. ford escort ghia.

8. vauxhall cavalier sri (nicked after a month of owning it).

9. ford orion ghia.

10. XR3i. fiat uno (worst car ever).

11. ford escort Td.

12. Alfa JTD (fastest diesel ive ever driven)

13. Landrover freelander

And now to the lex Quality all the way :D

Boy that took me back some years :D

[SpokesT]

Some cracking replies there. I can see I am going to enjoy this club. I am also on a motorbike list as well as a military one (past life). I find I am surrounded by experts whose brains I can pick to solve almost any problem. I reckon with the diversity that seems to exist here, this list will be no different!

[lutonmatt]

10 years ago would have been 13 so push bike only passed my test 5 years ago but

1.1 fiesta

2.0 cavalier sri

2.0 honda prelude

4.0 ls400

6.6 trans am

[swfcdan]

10 years ago i was 12 and 20 years ago i was 2! i passed at 17 and my first car was a MK1 punto, i had it for about 8 months and i then got a MK3 punto, had that for a while and got my IS about 2 years ago

hope i dont make you feel old haha

[CadeyIS200]

First car was a 1.2 Vauxhall Corsa,

Second Car was a 1.4sri Vauxhall Corsa

Third Car was pug 306 TDI

And now i have the Lexus IS200SE

At the age of 22

[SINGH182]

10 years ago i was still roaming the streets on my push bike

first car was Toyota Yaris 1.3 @ the age of 17...now 21 im a proud owner of a is300

[Chris.S]

10 years ago i had a Corolla 1.6 Si

[WylieCoyote]

12. Alfa JTD (fastest diesel ive ever driven)

Boy that took me back some years :D

I'll second that. I've driven the 156 2.4 JTD and it's a biblically fast car for a diesel. I'm a petrol advocate through and through but that car was something else. Another fast diesel is the Grande Punto 130bhp 1.9 JTD - that's a frighteningly quick (but crude) car too.

Keith

10 years ago I was 15 and had also a pushbike. My cars in ascending order (I used to drive company cars but these are just my private purchases)

1. Renault 5 (G reg) - loved that car - sobbed for days when it finally died!

2. Fiat Punto 1.2 SX (R reg) - also loved this car

3. Peugeot 307 1.6 Rapier (02 reg) (aka the big blue slug) - my favourite of all my cars - haven't really been happy since I swapped it

4. Nissan Micra 1.0 (Y reg) - had at the same time as the Peugeot - a car so bad it was almost likeable!

5. Toyota Celica 1.8 VVTI (05 reg) - fantastic car, handled like a dream but whilst I admired it, it was never a love affair like some of the others

6. Lexus IS200 (05 reg) (aka another big blue slug) - same as above I guess, it's a fantastic car but it's no Peuegot 307. I sense we won't be together long!

That's the history of my cars, all won my head but my 307 won my heart. Aww!

Keith

[TigerFish]

Not sure what I was driving when, but the list of cars over 20 years of driving goes (in order):

Ford cortina 1.6 L Mk5 (V reg)

Lancia Delta 1500 (Y reg)

Vauxhall Firenza (N reg I think)

Rover SD1 3500 Auto (T reg)

Ford Escort 1600 Ghia Mk2 (R reg)

Rover SD1 3500 Auto (T reg)

Ford Capri 3000 Ghia MK2 (R reg)

Ford Capri 2.8 Injection (X reg)

Rover SD1 3500 Auto (X reg)

Lancia Prisma 1600 LX (D reg)

Rover SD1 3500 Vitesse (B reg)

Citroen BX GTI 16 Valve (F reg)

Rover SD1 Vitesse (B reg)

Ford Capri 2.8 injection (Y reg)

Rover 827 si (ex met police car) (M reg)

Renault Laguna (company car) (P Reg)

Saab 900 (company car) (P reg)

BMW 325 Coupe (K reg) (current car)

Lexus GS300 Sport (P reg) (current car)

[peter026]

10 years ago I was driving an Izuzu Piazza 2 litre turbo, boy could that shift

20 years ago I think it was a Granada and a Volvo 240

30 years ago it was a BMW 2000, did an awful lot of miles in that car, and never had anything done to it apart from servicing

[Noel]

10 years ago i was driving a 1988 Integra with pop up lights...

[Chris Skelton]

O.K. 30 years ago? Ariel Leader motorbike (rebuilt)

20 years ago. Citroen DS 23 Pallas Inj.(also Citroen Traction Commerciale-rebuilt, plus a GSA Estate.)

10 years ago. Jeep Cherokee. Citroen CX GTi Turbo Auto (custom, as they never MADE an Auto-Turbo!) later...BMW 850

Now. Nissan S-Cargo. LS 400 Ser 4

Lots in between. Every Citroen nearly.....

[Jackal321]

10 years ago i was riding a bicycle :P

passed my driving test at 18, began by sharing a mazda 323 with my brother, then i got a rover 416, then a corolla, and now the IS :)